this morning on "world news now" -- the champions, the green bay packers beat the pittsburgh steelers in the super bowl. >> the vince lombardi trophy heads home to titletown, usa. it is monday, february 7th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." we're talking about the commercials because that's what i tuned in to watch. good morning, thanks for being us with on this monday. i'm vinita nair. >> did you have a favorite? >> i like the m&m one. chrysler had so many commercials. >> did you see doritos with the pug crashing through the door?

that was good, too. we slept through the first quarter. >> we're honest. >> good morning, i'm rob nelson. not all ticketholders got to see the game within dallas stadium. a few hundred fans were turned away. they are not too pleased. >> after paying all that money. >> $800. >> businesses try to return to normal in cairo. we've heard for days now they have been shuddered. ee gipgs leaders are trying to set up a transitional government plan, one the world is waiting to see. >> absolutely. later on in this half hour, inspirational message from a college wrestler with a winning attitude. first, the sell brags are not over yet in cheesehead territory. the packers will fly home with their super bowl trophy and carry it through the streets of green bay, wisconsin, and a moe motorcade. >> hundreds of fans with tickets may remember super bowl xlv for

its frustrations and disappointments. as jason whitely reports, those fans found no seats at the stadium. >> reporter: it was clear even before the new dallas cowboy stadium was built jerry jones and the nfl would not host a super bowl only being able to seat 78,000 people. that's why the stadium was designed with extra space to accommodate temporary seats. in this case, 18,000 additional seats. a few hours before the game, the nfl issued statements indicating that more than 1200 ticketsholders would not be allowed in those temporary seats located in four lower sections and two upper sections. no reason was given other than to say the decision was made for the safety of the fans. three weeks ago, when most of those seats had been installed, news 8 caught wind of problems. concerns being raised by the arlington city fire marshal and arlington code inspectors.

records obtained by news 8 at the time confirmed it. a series of memos and photographs enumerating numerous safety and code violations. among them, blocked paths of egress for fans who might need to escape in an emergency. inspectors found plans with no engineer seals. perhaps most glaringly, the discovery of one set of plans with no information regarding structural stability. and this, structural elements of one set of stands that are not completely secured and supported. but six days later one city official assured arlington's top building inspector, quote, i believe that they, the contractors, have addressed our major concerns. >> and that was jason whitely reporting. some bumped fans ended up watching the game on tv monitors or in standing room areas, although most of those folks had traveled some pretty long distances and paid some pretty big bucks to be at the game. >> yeah they're probably not too

happy. >> huh-uh. turning to the crisis in egypt, more closed door talks are expected today to end two weeks of political upheaval. egypt's vice president met with the outlawed muslim brotherhood and other opposition groups for the fi time yesterday. despite this meeting, president obama is playing down the prospects that the brotherhood would play a major role in the new government. >> i think that the muslim brotherhood is one faction in egypt. they don't have majority support in egypt. they are -- but they are well organized and there are strains of their ideology that are anti-u.s. there's no doubt about it. what i want is a representative government in egypt. and i have confidence that if egypt moves in an orderly transition process, that we'll are a government in egypt that we can work with together as a partner. >> the muslim brotherhood aims to set up an islamic state in egypt. that is a big concern for the obama administration and government leaders in israel. well, life is slowly returning to normal for millions

of people in cairo. some schools reopened for the first time in more than a week and so did some banks, too. abc's alex marquardt has been talking to people on the street. >> reporter: dusk on the nile. young egyptians hanging out, drinking tea, smoking, scenes that seem so out of place after all the anger and violence of the past two weeks. you and your friends, are you going about your lives the way you were before this all started? >> yeah. just without the night life. i called my friends and they told me, let's go. yeah, let's go out. but before the curfew. >> reporter: lines snaked out of banks the first time they were open in a week. branches that were open only had enough cash to stay open a few hours. cranes cleared the wreckage of burned out trucks. one way to gauge how cairo's feeling, the traffic and the honking were back. tahrir square is still full of thousands of protesters milling about peacefully, dancing, chanting, making art out of

garbage. most have not wavered in their demands and they feel like they're making progress. >> in root causes of the corruption and this criminal act against egyptian people is not changed from its roots. nothing happened. >> reporter: but we saw a skism developing, some arguing they've already won and should call it a day. others shouted them down. it cairo neighborhoods many who support the cause are losing patience with the die-hards who have brought life in cairo to a halt. >> we have to stop now until we can see the change. >> reporter: and just when life beyond tahrir square started to feel normal again, a reminder this country remains in crisis. the nationwide curfew. >> at 7:00, take a look at the country. it's completely closed. no restaurants, no coffee shops, not even a supermarket to buy your stuff. >> reporter: alex marquardt, abc news, cairo. mother nature seems to have it in for australia.

wildfires broke out in the province of western australia over the weekend. the flames destroyed at least 41 homes outside the city of perth and burned through 4,000 acres. crews hope to contain the fires today. a cyclone devastated eastern australia, which has also seen record flooding. three american hikers charged with spying while in iran have entered not guilty pleas. they went on trial in secret in tehran. larry jacobs has the details. >> reporter: the closed-door hearing for josh fattal and shane bauer lasted five hours. no observers, including the swiss ambassador, who represents u.s. diplomatic interests in iran. the two men and bauer's fiancee sarah shourd were charged with illegally entering iran and espionage. shourd was released last september. ordered to return for the trial but refused. just days after arriving in the u.s., shourd met with iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad in

new york where he was attending the u.n. general assembly to ask for his help in freeing her friends. the lawyers entered not guilty pleas for all three. after reading everything, i'm very hopeful and positive that legally there is no evidence of trespassing or spying. but that may not be enough to win their freedom. >> we know from previous experience in iran that these -- these judges are not objective. these cases are not based on the actual evidence. they are political cases. >> reporter: if convicted they could face a maximum ten years in prison. larry jacobs, abc news. and now for a look at today's weather around the country. there will be a mixture of rain and snow across the south from memphis to little rock and into jackson, mississippi. meanwhile, snowy in cleveland as well. and on the east coast, dry and mild. cold in the upper plains and showers in the pacific northwest. >> miami has the high temperature today with 82 degrees. minneapolis the low at 5. although omaha will clock in with 12. the northeast will be in the

mid-40s. >> the story everybody's talking about this morning. it's not just steelers fans who were disappointed this morning, singer christina aguilera admits she flubed a line in the national anthem during yesterday's super bowl. ♪ what so proudly we watched ♪ at the twilight's last gleaming ♪ ♪ and the rockets' red glare >> did you catch it there? >> i caught it. they caught it, too. >> she now says she lost her place. if you didn't catch it, it should have been o'er the ramparts we watched, instead she repeated an earlier line with a slight variation. >> the flag never streamed or ramparts gallantly otherwise in her rendition. she said she hopes viewers understand and still feel her love for the country. at least some people said on the plus side it was proof she was singing. it wasn't lip synched like other folks have in past years. >> it's amazing to me that her wikipedia page was changed by

the third quarter of the game to reflect the mistake. it's been changed back since then. >> harder than genie in a bottle, i guess. we'll be back with more "world news now."

welcome back, everybody. this week could be a make or break week for lindsay lohan's career as early as today authorities in l.a. could charge the actress with felony grand theft. >> police salo han stole a necklace from a jewelry store. he her lawyers say she'll fight the charges. >> reporter: barely a month out of rehab and already more legal woes for lindsay lohan. tmz reports she's facing grand theft felony charges. the reason, this $2500 necklace. a jewelry store in california says she stole it from them and they have surveillance tape to prove it.

tnz says lohan claims the necklace was loaned to her and she was planning to return it, which she eventually did. >> the lapd got a seven warrant to search her house and then and only then did she decide i better do something so she had an assistant bee line it for the jewelry store. >> reporter: her lawyers fired back saying we vehemently deny these charges. the troubled star is on probation and has been arrested twice for dwi. she served three separate jail sentences and entered rehab five times in three years. lohan has been accused of stealing before. in 2008 a college student accused her of swiping her mink coat which lindsay denied. >> there's such a pattern here of two-bit criminal behavior that these thing can add up in a judge's mind or prosecutor's mind where they might want to throw the book at her. >> when lohan left rehab in january she tweeted, today is

the first day of the rest of my life. but this latest accusation is a terrible twist for a promising hollywood actress. now tangled in a web of real life drama. >> she's a hot mess. i'm tired of it. >> this could be -- she's already fired that lawyer once. >> exactly, exactly. could be behind bars for three years if convicted. coming up, the big night of the year for advertisers. >> and a formula for success for super bowl commercials. advertisers reveal their secrets.

back to our top story on this monday morning. the green bay packers are bringing another championship back to titletown, usa. aaron rodgers threw three touchdown passes helping the packers beat the steelers 31-25 to capture the crown and super

bowl xlv in dallas. this is the fourth super bowl title in packers' history. rodgers was named the game's mvp. firmly now out of brett favre's shadow for sure. around the world last night, millions of people tuned in, not for the game, but for the commercials. he was clearly one those people, yes. >> over the past few years you may have noticed that with all the time and money, there seems to be a pattern to their success. john berman explains. >> reporter: super bowl xlv, while the season veterans take their positions, quarterbacks, guards, linebackers, horses, chimps, babies and naked ladies. >> godaddy.com. >> reporter: because really what's a super bowl without horses, chimps and naked ladies? >> super bowl ad is the biggest venue in the world. it's like going to the oscars or something. >> reporter: sean brian is the group creative director for mccann worldwide, a modern day mad man, but shorter.

>> if you want to get on a plane to see just the hint of a woman's thigh because her skirt is just this much too short. >> welcome to the real mad men. a little shlumpier, no smoking allowed. >> reporter: he get to the essence of a super bowl ad. like go daddy. >> go daddy girls coming to set. >> everybody is staring. >> sex sells. that's hard to get. that's really hard to understand what that's about. >> reporter: budweiser. >> oh, the horses. >> reporter: do clydesdales make you thirsty? >> i don't know if they make you thirsty but they make you proud to be an american beer drinker. >> reporter: and the chimps. you're laughing. you love chimps. you can't help yourself. >> i like them. >> reporter: he does like them. we all like them. even if we can't figure out what they have to do with a company

like career builder. but remember, a super bowl ad is a different animal than other ads. >> okay. >> nothing goes better with left joefs than ice cold pepsi. >> it's less of an opportunity to inform people and tell them a whole bunch of details about your product. you. to entertain them and you want to have them remember your brand. >> reporter: at $3 million a pop, it had better be entertaining. and likeable. >> you're playing like betty white out there. >> that's not when your girlfriend says. >> reporter: and it had been be understandable for the some 100 million people watching the super bowl. >> it used to be you would come down from the mountain with your message and announce it to the people with mega phones. >> reporter: back in the '80s super bowl ads were like this from apple. >> on january 24th apple computer will introduce macintosh and you'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984.

>> now, advertising is an ongoing dialogue and you want to get people talking about your brand, re-tweeting your commercial, looking for web zones about it, and the super bowl is the very first part of it. >> reporter: after nearly 20 years in the business, sean has spent four months working on his very first super bowl ad. a top secret spot, including shooting in thailand, for a new gaming phone from sony-ericsson. why is it such a big secret? >> it's the launch of a few product. we want team to know it's coming but we want them to wait to see the phone. >> reporter: we're the very first people to see any of it. >> that's right. >> reporter: but we can't see all of it? >> that's the rules. that's the way we play. here we go. ♪ >> you're supposed to be a

little scared. >> reporter: i'm totally scared. i'm terrified. oh, my goodness. >> now, that's it. you've seen enough. >> reporter: will next year's game feature chimps and naked ladies? chances are better than super. they're certain. i'm john berman in new york. hó

♪ welcome back, everybody. finally this half hour, the packers' aaron rodgers might be the super bowl mvp this year, but the subject of our next story really is if a league of excellence all by himself. >> he is a nationally ranked wrestler at arizona state university whose success on the mat is an inspiration to all of us. nathan o'neil has more.

>> reporter: hour after hour of sweat, this gym literally wreaks of hard work. it's a place that feels very comfortable to anthony robles. >> wrestling takes tremendous work ethic. >> reporter: for the past four years he's left everything on the mat in the quest to be the best in the country. >> it was about finding my style of wrestling. >> reporter: and all that sweat and hard work have paid off. he's now ranked number two in the nation and undefeated. he has worn his asu uniform since freshman year and competed. but this time when he hits the mat, it will be his last match as a sun defl. >> i but so much into it. i love the sport so much that, you know, right now i can't imagine what i'll be doing not competing. >> reporter: but while life as a wrestler is not an easy one, for anthony there was one pore challenge. >> it's a shock to everybody. people didn't know i was going to be born with his leg missing.

>> reporter: i says his mother taught him an important life lesson, by treating him the same as anyone else. >> i just love him, you know. i think i -- i've always just loved him as my son. >> i'm not just wrestling for myself. i'm wrestling for my family, my friends, people who helped me and those people cheering me on. >> reporter: when he took the mat for the final time at asu, he channelled the suspect of fans and every family member who helped him get this far. >> so see him out there, to see him wrestle, to hear everybody cheering for him, it touched my heart. >> reporter: while he may be moving on from the sport, he hopes to continue to inspire others. >> i guess i'm going to move into motivational speaking. ip to turn around and help inspire and help other people to reach their goals. >> reporter: but as he enters the finals, he's hoping not only his words but his actions inspire. for abc news on campus, nathan

o'neil, tempe, arizona. >> such an impressive young man. he went on to say in an interview, i don't want to be -- i want -- rather, i want to be known as a great wr

this morning on "world news now" -- the pack is back. green bay beats the pittsburgh steelers in super bowl xlv. the packers are taking home their fourth championship trophy. it's monday, february 7th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> no one else wants to win it. four is too much. i was rooting for them, actually. >> so i was. good morning, i'm rob nelson. >> i'm vinita nair. why anticipation turned to frustration for thousands of super bowl fans in dallas.

and on worldwide tv how christina aguilera disappointed her fans. you've probably heard of this. you think it's a mistake? you think it's okay? we'll tell you what everyone is saying about that super bowl performance. >> people have been ripping her to shreds. she's taking a beat down this morning. also ahead, egypt takes remarkable steps toward a new government. the world is watching this ongoing political process. a big meeting over the weekend with many, many opposition factions to try to cobble together a new government. and a way to move forward after the last two weeks. >> interesting to see what the world of muslim brotherhood will play when it's all said and done. and a talker story. a murder suspect who claims his consumption of red bull made him do it. he apparently killed his elderly father. he says it was exhaustion and red bull that led him to it. >> wow. see how that plays in court. first, the lombardi trophy is going home to green bay, wisconsin. the packers bent the steelers to their will in super bowl xlv. it was an especially sweet victory for green bay quarterback and mvp aaron

rodgers who has finally come out from the shadow of brett favre. >> great poster there. but the big game got off to a shaky start for thousands of fans who suffered the lingering effects of all that freak winter weather down in texas. wfaa reporter has more on that. >> have an enjoyable day at nfl super bowl. >> reporter: at 11:30 the nfl opened perimeter fence. >> hold your tickets up. hold credentials up. >> reporter: 30 minutes later at noon, the security lines were supposed to open, allowing fans into the stadium. that time came and went. fans did their best to stay upbeat. >> a little disappointed. disappointed. i had jerry jones' cell phone number, but he's not answering. >> the wait's horrible. >> reporter: the issue, ice on the stadium roof. the nfl says it worked with the arlington fire department to establish safe zones to protect fans from falling ice. that meant closing four gates. and delayed the opening of the gates that were open.

>> when that gate opened up at noon to wait here for an hour to get into there. nobody quite knows what's going on, when it's going to start or anything else. >> i don't know what's going on, but i hope they get us in pretty soon. >> reporter: this gate finally did open about an hour and 20 minutes late. leading to a celebration by the crowd. but here the ice storm left yet another bad impression for some visitors to north texas. are you surprised to even hear that's a problem? >> yes, yes. i think it's -- i think they're real prepared here, myself. >> reporter: not to mention, this delay and four closed gates combined to slow down the arrival of tens of thousands of fans, who were just arriving when the gates finally opened. >> and that was david shecter reporting. believe it or not, it gets worse than that. more than 1,000 fans got to the stadium to find they had no seats at all. six temporary sections had been set up for the super bowl but they had not yet been inspected. so hundreds of people who had

paid very good money to be there had to watch the game on monitors or in standing room sections. some unpleased folks in your hometown of dallas. >> uh-huh. well, turning overseas now to an important step toward a political transition in egypt. vice president met with 50 opposition leaders, including those from the muslim brotherhood. christiane amanpour reports on the bold move. >> reporter: in cairo, people were still gathering in tahrir square, but over the course of this day, it became clear that the real action had moved into the cabinet office. it was there that omar suleiman, the new vice president of egypt, in an unprecedented meeting, convened the opposition that has effectively forced president mubarak to step down. for the first time in 30 years, the muslim brotherhood, a banned political party, sat in a government meeting, alongside youth leaders who were at the heart of this movement. but it's the brotherhood and

what role it might take in the future here that is of chief concern to the west. we spoke with dr. khalil el gazar, a member of the brotherhood's leadership council after the meeting. everybody's afraid of you, afraid of the muslim brotherhood. i ask why? give me an answer. >> reporter: because they don't want to see a fundamentalist regime where people don't have choice. >> we are not fundamentalist. like the muslim think. >> reporter: he told us the brotherhood is not seeking the presidency or any cabinet position. and he says the brotherhood accepts egypt's peace treaty with israel. what about the west, would you have friendly ties to the west? >> we have good feelings to the west, but what i'm searching for, better thing from the western country. >> reporter: while there are still protesters vowing to remain in the square until the president leaves office, the political process for when he does leave is now under way. christiane amanpour, abc news, cairo.

and president obama is now downplaying expectations that the muslim brotherhood would have a major role in whatever new government takes shape in egypt. in an interview with fox news channel's bill o'reilly the president looked at egypt's options. >> what i want is a representative government in egypt. and i have confidence that if egypt moves in an orderly transition process, that we'll have a government in egypt that we can work with together as a partner. >> also from egypt, a top google executive who went missing there is expected to be released to his family this afternoon. the google marketing manager had been detained since he took part in anti-government protests late last month. a colleague was negotiating his release. back in this country, two young men are under arrest after a shooting rampage at a frat party in ohio. it happened at a house off campus near youngstown state university. police say the two men were asked to leave the party but returned and open fire.

one student was killed and 11 others injured. one victim, a 17-year-old, is now in critical condition. there is growing controversy in florida over a man who admittedly -- who admitted killing his elderly father. lawyers for the confessed killer say they now plan to use the insanity defense, but they're also blaming the killer's use of a popular energy drink. jeremy hubbard has that story. >> reporter: it is an unbelievable crime. steven coffeen has confessed to smothering his 83-year-old father with a pillow. but almost as shocking, the reasons his lawyers say he did it. the cause, a combination of red bull and exhaustion that led to a psychotic breakdown. his own brother doesn't buy it. >> it's crap. this red bull -- i don't even think the man drank red bull. they cannot 100% tell me that he didn't know what he was doing. >> reporter: steven coffeen's defense team disagrees. in fact, the american psychiatric association defines a caffeine overdose as 300 milligrams, that's about four cans of red bull.

but coffeen's attorneys insist cases like this aren't stunts. >> these people are insane. i don't put a defense on that i don't believe in. >> reporter: in this case the prosecution's psychiatrist agree and an insanity plea is appropriate for steven coffeen. the red bull insanity defense is hardly unique. a defendant once blamed tea. another said he was being chased by space aliens when he killed a cop. remember the infamous twinkie defense? harvey milk shot and killed by fellow san francisco leader dan white, whose attorneys claimed a diet of sugary food gave him mood swings that made him snap. why do these things cause insanity? it's, frankly, a series of events that causes an individual to not be able to understand that the actions, activities they're involved in are criminal. >> reporter: we have seen and will likely continue to see the insanity defense in a slew of high-profile cases. truth is, it's used less than 1% of the time. and it works for just

one-quarter of those defendants, like stooemp coffeen, who could be released from a mental institution in just months if a judge agrees he was instain at the time. jeremy hubbard, abc news, new york. >> what a bizarre story. here's a look now at your monday weather. showers in the pacific northwest. the southeast and hawaii. meanwhile, snow in denver and around the rockies. a wintry mix of snow and rain across much of the south. partly sunny here in the northeast. >> mid-40s here in the northeast. miami will hit 82 degrees. that's warmer than honolulu, at 79. bitter cold in fargo with minus 2. not much better in the twin cities where the high will be 5 degrees. while some couples may race to the altar but in denver yesterday, some raced to the prize. >> more than a dozen prospective brides and grooms took part in the second annual hitched in the highlands event. it was billed as an urban adventure. >> the 15 couples had to follow clues and perform some stunts as well. elizabeth and paul finished first and took the $20,000 prize. nice for them. they'll be married on april

10th. they say it's good to find out how well they will work together. >> if you're wondering what the stunts were, it included making bouquets, buying liquor and having the groom get a manicure. >> a couple that drinks together, stays together. more "world news now" after this. ♪ [ male announcer ] for the things you can't wash, freshen it with febreze. ♪ because febreze doesn't just cover up odors... it penetrates deep into fabrics to eliminate odors and leaves a light, fresh scent. febreze. it's a breath of fresh air.

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is only rivalled by the battle for your stomach. domino's, papa john's, pizza hut, they play rough trying to win your delivery dollar. >> pizza. thank you. how much do i owe you? >> reporter: who's the best of the bunch? to find out, we devised an unscientific test. who better to judge pizza than college students. we asked students at five different universities around the country to order large pepperoni pizzas from the three chains. to measure them not on taste, that's just too subjective. >> very good. >> reporter: but on what really matters when you're trying to feed a hungry crew. speed of delivery, temperature, how hot on arrival and critical for meat lovers, how many pieces of pepperoni per pie. first up, delivery time. all students called their local domino's, papa john's and pizza hut at the exact same time, 5 p.m. on sunday. >> timer has started. for domino's.

>> reporter: after adjusting for distance from delivery location, the winner of fastest delivery on this day goes to domino's, which won in three out of five of our test locations. next up, hotness. of course, the sooner the pizza got to the students, the more likely it was to be nice and fresh. the most piping hot pie came from domino's in syracuse. >> this pizza is coming right on it of the oven. they lit real just drove it here. about 152. >> reporter: not every slice was good and hot. like this from papa john's. >> it's so cold that it ripped apart like this. >> i ordered a pizza from you an hour ago. it just got here. it's cold and nasty. >> reporter: who had the hottest pizza? in our experiment the winner was domino's. >> very hot, fresh and lots of pepperonis. two thumbs up for me. >> reporter: final challenge, a tongue-twister. how many pepperonis on each

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♪ skinny so skinny ♪ well, let's just get to the story everyone's talking about today. >> oh, yeah. >> if you watched the super bowl last night you probably saw christina aguilera singing at very beginning. everyone's talking about the line she messed up. take a listen.

♪ what so proudly we hailed ♪ at the twilight's last gleaming ♪ ♪ what so proudly we watched ♪ at the twilight's last gleaming ♪ >> so that wasn't on loop. that was her repeating the same line twice with variation. o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and she sang with a slight variation. she sang, what so proudly we watched were the twilight's last gleaming. she is finally coming out. she had to because people viciously attacked her after the mistake. people in the audience were immediately tweeting. here's what she had to say. she said, i can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and the true spirit of the anthem still came through. this is after nibblely she declined commenting.

phone calls were made and her spokes people didn't say anything. this came out late last night. we posted this on our facebook page. and people immediately -- >> it blew up. >> -- chimed in. you guys are very aggressive in whether you support her or don't support her. we got this text from katherine. she said, i was floored and not in a good way. she butchered that. we got this from andrew. can you imagine how nerve racking that must be? back off. she's human, geez. >> i tend to agree with andrew. some folks didn't like her rendition, thought it was too over the top. that was mine -- >> that was christina. >> yes. exactly. 100 million people watching, i guess people get nervous. gisele bundchen, back in the headlines. she has a knack for making folks mad. six months ago she said there should be a worldwide law that mothers should breast feed their babies for six months. >> i remember that. >> folks didn't like that. now she's taking on sunscreen, calling it poison. she's 30 years old now.

she basically says she has too many chemicals, doesn't like to use the stuff. of course, cancer experts weighing in now, furious she said this. the guy head of dermatology at brazil's national cancer institute chimed in and said, sunscreen prevents damage to the skin and is fundamental importance for the prevention of cancer. this is not any poich. when a public person makes a statement like this, it creates confusion. she doesn't like formula or sunscreen. that's giselle -- >> to my core belief i believe they're innocent comment. she doesn't intend to have this platform. she has it because she's a celebrity. they can barely speak english but apparently we want them to learn italian. i'm talking about the guys from "jersey shore." ronnie and pauley d. are taking a rosetta stone to learn italian, according to tmz. if you haven't heard, they're doing seasons in italy and they want to make sure they are able to speak the language properly. i think they have to fade out the jersey shore accent to master. >> i have a feeling that ain't going to happen.

i want to see what kind of americana the crew from "jersey shore" brings over to italy when they start season, what is it, 28 now? i cannot wait. >> it will be interesting when they introduce beer bongs and spray tans and -- >> gtf, t-shirt time, the fist pump. >> he knows it well. >> gtf, fist pump.

here are some stories to watch today on abc news. america online is expected to announce that is buying "the huffington post." aol reportedly paid $315 million for "the huffington post" to expand the company's news presence on the web. wikileaks founder julian assange appears in a london courtroom today for extradition hearings. his attorneys are fighting sexual assault charges in sweden. back to work for astronaut mark kelly. he will resume training for "endeavour" mission. he has been on leave since last month when his wife, congresswoman gabby giffords was shot in tucson. finally this half hour, the story of a little boy from

georgia whose bravery knows no limits. >> after suffering painful burns and then having his body reject skin grafts, teak part in an experimental medical trial, a trial using skin grown in a laboratory. here's steve osunsami. >> look at you, mr. handsome man. >> reporter: alfred is just 8 years old and a very strong little man. he is living, surviving, walking into school today after suffering severe burns over most of his body. the accident happened here in june at a wooded area near the family's home. there were kids here playing with lighters and gasoline. they started a fire. and when alfred came to help them put it out, he was covered in flames. >> in the backseat of the car he said, mommy, am i going to die? because i think i might die. and i said, no, you're not going to die. you're not going to die. no. >> reporter: doctors at shriner's hospital in cincinnati saved his life with a risky procedure that required fda approval. they took small pieces of skin,

what little he had left, and used them to grow replacement skin in a laboratory. >> i want to go home. >> reporter: after months of prayers and dozens of operations -- >> good morning. we're glad to have you here today. >> reporter: -- he's now back at elementary school with his old friends in his new skin. >> it's awesome. and i'm awesome. >> reporter: all this time a teddy bear kept his seat nice and warm. for the next year he has to wear this protective suited, while his skin fully heals, his doctors flew to town weeks ago to show his friends what to expect >> they showed how he needed the special clothes. >> no one wants to wear this. >> really? >> i don't like wearing this. >> i like it because it looks like a fire fighter man. >> reporter: the kids don't see -- >> nope, they don't. >> reporter: they just see him as a regular student. >> a regular third grade student. that they're glad to have back in their classroom. >> reporter: he's expected to make a full recovery. his mother says he's learned more in four months about life, death and love than most people learn their entire lives.

steve osunsami, abc news. >> his parents say his days begin wi